Yuuki Tokunaga - Nantokanaru sa（なんとかなるさ）

 

It's someone that everyone needs. That father figure or good buddy who comes to you after you've experienced a major screwup and got a major chewing out because of it and lets you know that everything will be OK eventually. As was illustrated in "Star Trek Into Darkness" above, maybe it was the father figure himself who kicked your butt twelve ways from Sunday but still lets you know afterwards that he still believes in you and that you'll improve. 

"Star Trek" may have provided the analogy here but for "Kayo Kyoku Plus", I've got the song. This is the first time that enka singer Yuuki Tokunaga（徳永ゆうき）has appeared on the blog, but he's been around for a while in the industry and on television. In fact, I think he debuted about a decade ago after becoming the Grand Champion of a certain year's "Nodo Jiman"（のど自慢）contest on NHK. 

Tokunaga's most recent single is "Nantokanaru sa" (You'll Be All Right) which was released earlier in January this year. Maybe this is an enka tune with a good dollop of tropical folksy pop or perhaps it's a modern kayo kyoku with an enka feeling thanks to Tokunaga's delivery but whatever it is, the melody and wording by music duo youth case fit the good feelings of climbing back up from despair. Come to think of it, I can hear a bit of 1950s doo-wop in there, too.